”Right now you can pretty much smell the playoffs coming,” Curry said. ”I think we understand that we are a talented team and we have championship pedigree. We understand what it takes to win a championship but you can’t just turn on the switch of every single detail that needs to go into being the team we want to be come April. So, enough talking really about that, it’s just going out and actually doing it and executing and building those habits and the right expectation night in, night out to get ourselves ready for five weeks from now.”

Kevin Durant added 19 points and six rebounds as the Warriors reached 50 wins for the fifth straight season.

”I didn’t expect to come out blazing given that we were coming off the trip and